Laporta will offer explanations about the Negreira case on Monday, April 17

The president of Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, will offer a press conference next Monday, April 17 at 11 a.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
11 April 2023 Tuesday 05:24
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Laporta will offer explanations about the Negreira case on Monday, April 17

The president of Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, will offer a press conference next Monday, April 17 at 11 a.m. at the Camp Nou Auditorium 1899. The main item on the agenda, give explanations about the Negreira case. On February 21, days after the matter of the club's payments to the former vice president of the referees broke out, Laporta announced that he had launched an in-depth investigation by hiring an external lawyer and that he really wanted to explain " soon". He also said that he would not offer them until this investigation was completed. The club hired Andreu van den Eynde, a lawyer who was in charge of defending Oriol Junqueras and Raül Romeva during the Procès trial.

Almost two months after Laporta announced the investigation, he will give the club's version of a case that has put the entity on the ropes and that has led even UEFA to take action on the matter. The Spanish Federation, the Higher Sports Council, LaLiga and Real Madrid have appeared in court as a private prosecution in the Negreira case.

The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, gave his opinion on Laporta's press conference on Tuesday. “I find out now, it's about time. Although it is also important that he come to the League meeting on the 19th and speak to the rest of the clubs. It's been more than two months now. If it is what they have told FIFA and UEFA, it will not clarify much for us either. The question is clear: why was the vice-president of the referees paid for so long? Four different presidents passed the baton in the midst of audits and forensics between presidents. An act was drawn up in the Treasury for this matter and Barcelona recognized that these invoices did not correspond to any service offered to the club, let's see how it clarifies it for us, I am eager to hear it and the rest of the fans, too ”, Thebes extended .

It should be remembered that the defense lawyers of those investigated in the Negreira case met with FC Barcelona in mid-March to set the strategy, as revealed by Món to RAC1 and confirmed by sources close to La Vanguardia. The summit was attended by the lawyers representing the accused after the filing of the complaint by the Prosecutor's Office. Pau Molins, representing Sandro Rosell; José María Fuster Fabra, on behalf of Josep Maria Bartomeu; Josep Riba, Òscar Grau's lawyer; Miguel Capuz, lawyer for Albert Soler; and Cristóbal Martell, on behalf of FC Barcelona, ​​which is charged as a legal entity. The meeting was a first contact between the defenses that explore whether a common strategy would be better or that each defend themselves on their own.

On March 15, Judge Silvia López Mejías took the first step in the judicial investigation that aims to clarify why Barcelona paid Enríquez Negreira.